#dailystream — Public Fediverse posts

#DailyStream: it’s never too late to get busy living. Blunt January blues with movies about fresh starts... and yes, even today’s film, 2007’s #TheBucketList, is about how new beginnings are possible even at the end. #Prime US/UK. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-its-never-too-late-to-get-busy-living.html

#DailyStream: when a brave new life is forced upon you… Blunt January blues with movies about fresh starts. Today: 2013’s #TheSecretLifeOfWalterMitty, an airy fairy tale, buoyed by an infectious joy. #Prime US, #DisneyPlusUK. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-when-a-brave-new-life-is-forced-upon-you.html

#DailyStream: a house that love builds (with a lot of help). In #Herself, a Dublin single mom escaping an abusive ex decides to build a house for herself and her small daughters. An absolute treasure of a social-justice drama. @PrimeVideo US, @CurzonCinemas Home UK

#DailyStream: what is war good for? profit! (say it again). Andrew Niccol’s 2005 satire #LordOfWar follows Nicolas Cage’s arms dealer as, among other crimes, he holds a fire sale of Soviet munitions in 1990s Ukraine. It’s very laugh-until-you-cry. @hbomax US thru 2/28; @NetflixUK

#DailyStream: what is war good for? profit! (say it again). Andrew Niccol’s 2005 satire #LordOfWar follows Nicolas Cage’s arms dealer as, among other crimes, he holds a fire sale of Soviet munitions in 1990s Ukraine. It’s very laugh-until-you-cry. @hbomax US thru 2/28; @NetflixUK

#DailyStream: what is war good for? profit! (say it again). Andrew Niccol’s 2005 satire #LordOfWar follows Nicolas Cage’s arms dealer as, among other crimes, he holds a fire sale of Soviet munitions in 1990s Ukraine. It’s very laugh-until-you-cry. @hbomax US thru 2/28; @NetflixUK

#DailyStream: what is war good for? profit! (say it again). Andrew Niccol’s 2005 satire #LordOfWar follows Nicolas Cage’s arms dealer as, among other crimes, he holds a fire sale of Soviet munitions in 1990s Ukraine. It’s very laugh-until-you-cry. @hbomax US thru 2/28; @NetflixUK

#DailyStream: one of the best films about modern motherhood I’ve ever seen. 2018’s #Tully rolls its eyes and barks out snark in the face of all the clichés. Brilliantly wise and funny, and profoundly moving. @netflix US, @primevideouk

#DailyStream: a society of the snow... with wolves. Hey, it’s yet another oh-no-we-crashed-in-the-snow-how-shall-we-survive? adventure thriller to accompany #SocietyOfTheSnow. 2012's #TheGrey also has apex predators! (Liam Neeson probably counts as one too.) #Max US, #Prime UK. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-a-society-of-the-snow-with-wolves.html

#DailyStream: the ethics of war on a nuclear-armed planet. Brilliant documentarian Errol Morris’s 2003 #TheFogOfWar makes for an excellent companion to #Oppenheimer for its insight into the atomic brinkmanship of the Cold War. @PrimeVideo and @AppleTV US/UK

#DailyStream: what is war good for? profit! (say it again). Andrew Niccol’s 2005 satire #LordOfWar follows Nicolas Cage’s arms dealer as, among other crimes, he holds a fire sale of Soviet munitions in 1990s Ukraine. It’s very laugh-until-you-cry. @hbomax US thru 2/28; @NetflixUK

#DailyStream: don’t look down? The Earth’s core has gone wonky. Scientists say not to worry. But that’s precisely what They *would* say. We should send Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank to check it out. Like in 2003’s better-than-you-think-it-is #TheCore. @hbomax US, @NetflixUK

#DailyStream: finding necessary purpose in elderhood. Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi’s Oscar-nom'd doc #TheMoleAgent -- about a man who goes undercover in a nursing home to suss out possible abuse -- is an unusual combination of clever and touching. #Hulu #Kanopy US, #BFIPlayer #DogwoofOnDemand UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: when we ordinary mortals are the monsters. I’m so in love with the vampires of 2014's #OnlyLoversLeftAlive (Tilda Swinton & Tom Hiddleston), with their lofty idealism, their engagement with history, science, art. #Hulu US, #Mubi UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: when we ordinary mortals are the monsters. I’m so in love with the vampires of 2014's #OnlyLoversLeftAlive (Tilda Swinton & Tom Hiddleston), with their lofty idealism, their engagement with history, science, art. #Hulu US, #Mubi UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: when we ordinary mortals are the monsters. I’m so in love with the vampires of 2014's #OnlyLoversLeftAlive (Tilda Swinton & Tom Hiddleston), with their lofty idealism, their engagement with history, science, art. #Hulu US, #Mubi UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: when we ordinary mortals are the monsters. I’m so in love with the vampires of 2014's #OnlyLoversLeftAlive (Tilda Swinton & Tom Hiddleston), with their lofty idealism, their engagement with history, science, art. #Hulu US, #Mubi UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: when we ordinary mortals are the monsters. I’m so in love with the vampires of 2014's #OnlyLoversLeftAlive (Tilda Swinton & Tom Hiddleston), with their lofty idealism, their engagement with history, science, art. #Hulu US, #Mubi UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: the only vampire feminist spaghetti western. #AGirlWalksHomeAloneAtNight is gorgeously sinister, its creepy cool engorged with suspense and desire. #Kanopy US, #StudiocanalPresents UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: the only vampire feminist spaghetti western. #AGirlWalksHomeAloneAtNight is gorgeously sinister, its creepy cool engorged with suspense and desire. #Kanopy US, #StudiocanalPresents UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: the only vampire feminist spaghetti western. #AGirlWalksHomeAloneAtNight is gorgeously sinister, its creepy cool engorged with suspense and desire. #Kanopy US, #StudiocanalPresents UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: the only vampire feminist spaghetti western. #AGirlWalksHomeAloneAtNight is gorgeously sinister, its creepy cool engorged with suspense and desire. #Kanopy US, #StudiocanalPresents UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: the only vampire feminist spaghetti western. #AGirlWalksHomeAloneAtNight is gorgeously sinister, its creepy cool engorged with suspense and desire. #Kanopy US, #StudiocanalPresents UK

#DailyStream: girls just wanna slay (emotional) monsters. An excellent companion to #Scrapper is an even more magic-realist story of a 12yo girl: 2018's #IKillGiants, another smart portrait of a child’s fears and anxieties. @PrimeVideo US, @NetflixUK UK

#DailyStream: TFW a film is incredibly depressing but honestly really great, too. You know that lost-at-sea feeling that seems to pervade the entire zeitgeist right now? The 2016 heist drama #HellOrHighWater captures that in a way that’s ugly but also beautiful. On #Hulu US, new on #Netflix UK.

#DailyStream: finding necessary purpose in elderhood. Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi’s Oscar-nom'd doc #TheMoleAgent -- about a man who goes undercover in a nursing home to suss out possible abuse -- is an unusual combination of clever and touching. #Hulu #Kanopy US, #BFIPlayer #DogwoofOnDemand UK

#DailyStream: finding necessary purpose in elderhood. Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi’s Oscar-nom'd doc #TheMoleAgent -- about a man who goes undercover in a nursing home to suss out possible abuse -- is an unusual combination of clever and touching. #Hulu #Kanopy US, #BFIPlayer #DogwoofOnDemand UK

#DailyStream: finding necessary purpose in elderhood. Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi’s Oscar-nom'd doc #TheMoleAgent -- about a man who goes undercover in a nursing home to suss out possible abuse -- is an unusual combination of clever and touching. #Hulu #Kanopy US, #BFIPlayer #DogwoofOnDemand UK

#DailyStream: finding necessary purpose in elderhood. Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi’s Oscar-nom'd doc #TheMoleAgent -- about a man who goes undercover in a nursing home to suss out possible abuse -- is an unusual combination of clever and touching. #Hulu #Kanopy US, #BFIPlayer #DogwoofOnDemand UK

#DailyStream: the West Bank we don’t see on the news. Oscar-nominated 2012 doc #5BrokenCameras is a distressing portrait of everyday Palestinian life, where kids’ birthday parties are the same sort of ordinary events as Israeli soldiers arresting children. #Kanopy US, #BFIPlayer UK

#DailyStream: desperate women, desperate measures. Courtney Hunt’s 2008 film #FrozenRiver, with an incredible Melissa Leo, straddles moralities, gender motivations, and ideas of poverty and despair in such a way that you’re not sure, by the end, what’s “right” and what isn’t. #Hulu US, #BFIPlayer UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: meta horror about how scary movies infect us. 2021's ambiguous, introspective #Censor examines on multiple levels how we digest horror movies, and how they linger with us. #Kanopy #Hulu US, #BFIPlayer #CurzonHomeCinema UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: the movie that made a screening room full of critics whimper. 2005’s #TheDescent makes you wanna pull your legs up onto the seat lest something hideous reach out from underneath and grab your ankles. #Max US, #Prime UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: gnaw your own arm off, why don’t you? Like James Franco, basically, in 2010’s #127Hours. This is far more distressing to me than any science-fiction body-horror nightmare, because it actually happened. #Prime US, #DisneyPlus UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: gnaw your own arm off, why don’t you? Like James Franco, basically, in 2010’s #127Hours. This is far more distressing to me than any science-fiction body-horror nightmare, because it actually happened. #Prime US, #DisneyPlus UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: gnaw your own arm off, why don’t you? Like James Franco, basically, in 2010’s #127Hours. This is far more distressing to me than any science-fiction body-horror nightmare, because it actually happened. #Prime US, #DisneyPlus UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: gnaw your own arm off, why don’t you? Like James Franco, basically, in 2010’s #127Hours. This is far more distressing to me than any science-fiction body-horror nightmare, because it actually happened. #Prime US, #DisneyPlus UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: gnaw your own arm off, why don’t you? Like James Franco, basically, in 2010’s #127Hours. This is far more distressing to me than any science-fiction body-horror nightmare, because it actually happened. #Prime US, #DisneyPlus UK

#DailyStream: attend a delightfully nasty little soiree with Cillian Murphy (and others). If three hours of Cillian Murphy in #Oppenheimer wasn’t enough, catch him (and an incredible ensemble) in modern drawing-room farce #TheParty. @Kanopy US @BFIPlayer @CurzonCinemas at home UK

#DailyStream: Reese Witherspoon hits the hiking trail to redeem herself. Blunt January blues with movies about fresh starts. Today: 2014’s #Wild, in which a woman is as honkingly screwed up as men get to be onscreen. #DirectTV US, #DisneyPlus UK. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/01/daily-stream-reese-witherspoon-hits-the-hiking-trail-to-redeem-herself.html

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: meta horror #CabinInTheWoods works on levels you didn’t even know existed. Deeply terrifying and uncomfortably funny, it updates for today ancient, atavistic terrors that have fueled scary stories forever. #Max US, #SkyCinema UK

#DailyStream: a movie about faith, yet without sanctimony. Gerard Butler is hugely engaging in #MachineGunPreacher, a tough guy surprised to find he cares. Also with an excellent supporting Michael Shannon. On @hulu @PrimeVideo US; @SkyUK Store UK

#DailyStream: the muse’s tale... from her own perspective. Jane Campion’s lovely 2009 #BrightStar lavishes its attention on Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), who inspired one or other of those early-19th-century poets. On @primevideouk UK, but, criminally, streaming nowhere in the US

#DailyStream: the movie Tom Hanks thinks we don’t talk about enough. Sam Mendes’s 2002 crime noir #RoadToPerdition is pulpy to its core, embracing the fundamental, mythic themes of the genre. US @netflix [https://www.netflix.com/title/60023600], UK @DisneyPlusUK [https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/movies/road-to-perdition/2U0QtIzjz75J]

#DailyStream: Sinéad O’Connor was right about the Catholic Church. 2013’s #Philomena is a deeply affecting true-life story of the nightmare Magdalene laundries, the first cry-until-you-laugh dramedy I’ve ever seen. Streaming @PrimeVideo US, @DisneyPlusUK.

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: how to fill the gaping hole inside now that Halloween is over. #TheNightmareBeforeChristmas's Jack Skellington keeping the revelry going when he crashes Christmas and makes it his own? Same, dude. Same. #DisneyPlus US/UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: the dread of a future you can’t see. The vibe in 2001’s daring, disturbing #DonnieDarko is one of despair, but its real horror is cultural conformity, and the hypocrisy and the cruelty that enforces it. #Kanopy US, #Shudder UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: when the silence of the lamb is horrifying. The human relationship with the natural world comes under poignant scrutiny in 2021’s #Lamb, a most affecting example of modern folk horror. #ParamountPlus US, #Mubi UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: sexy scary vampire? hell yes! Anton Yelchin and David Tennant battle Colin Farrell's as-alluring-as-he-is-repellent bloodsucker in 2011's #FrightNight. Startlingly funny and brutal, often at the same time. #Prime US, #DisneyPlus UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: haunted, and haunting... 2001’s #TheOthers is classy gothic horror, old-fashioned in the best way: no CGI, just mysterious footsteps and movement in the shadows and hushed whispers and slamming doors. On #Prime + #AppleTV US/UK.